Stocks
Home Up Salads Sandwiches Stocks Sauces Soups Pastas Grains Fruits Vegetables Meats Yeast Dough

 

 

Learner Expectations

1. Reading: Chapter content and recipes

 Read widely, attentively and on grade level for a variety of purposes, including academic, vocational, and leisure.

2. Writing: Chapter questions and summarizing research

Write for a variety of purposes and audiences, creating suitable ways to communicate ideas.

7. Independence: Connecting application to career decisions

Understand postsecondary opportunities and/or careers that match to personal strengths.

Workplace Standards

ACF Standard
ACF 4: food preparation
purpose: To develop skills in knife, tool and equipment handling and apply principles of food preparation to produce a variety of foods. To operate equipment safely and correctly.

8. Identify and prepare various stocks, soups and sauces.
 

Academic Skills

Reading: Chapter 20 Stocks & Sauces

(R-10-7.2) - Using information from the text to answer questions, to state the main/central ideas, to provide supporting details, to explain visual components supporting the text, or to interpret maps, charts, timelines, tables, or diagrams. (State)

Chapter

Writing: Knowledge Check 20-1 & 20-2

(W-10-2.1) - Selecting and summarizing key ideas to set context, appropriate to audience (State)       

Chapter

Math: Determining the volume of nourishing elements

M(N&O)–10–4 Accurately solves problems that involve but are not limited to proportional relationships, percents, ratios, and rates. (The problems might be drawn from contexts outside of and within mathematics including those that cut across content strands or disciplines.)

In a 12" diameter stock pot, you pour 10 quarts of water (577.5 cubic inches) of water over chicken bones and meirpoix.  If the resulting mixture is 8" high in the pot, what is the volume of the nourishing elements? Determine the ratio of water to nourishing elements?

Volume of a Cylinder: V=πr2h (r=radius of the cylinder base, h=cylinders height, π=3.14)

 

Theory

PowerPoint: Stocks

Research Based Task: n/a

Study Guide: Stocks

Assessment:  Practical & Written

Support

Vocabulary for this Unit:

Stock - The foundational liquids that form soups and sauces
Base - A powdered or concentrated stock
Meirpoix - A mixture of coarsely chopped vegetables and herbs
Glaze - A reduced concentrated stock
Reduction - The process of evaporating part of a stocks water through simmering
Sauce - A flavored thickened liquid
Thickening Agent - An ingredient that adds body to a liquid
Gelatinization - The process in which starch granules absorb moisture when placed in a liquid
Puree - Food ingredients that have been finely ground and added to a soup or liquid to thicken
Mother Sauce - Five basic sauces: espagnole, tomato, béchamel, veloute, and hollandaise
Roux -  A cooked mixture made from equal parts of flour and fat by weight